Journal Otter's Journal: Scientific tattoos 1
Blogger Carl Zimmer wondered if any of his readers had tattoos associated with their research or scientific enthusiasms. Terrifyingly, they sure do: atoms, animals, ATP, Necker cubes. The renaming of transuranium elements probably takes on new importance when you have a periodic table tattooed on your forearm!
I wonder... (Score:3, Interesting)
How many college professors would balk at students taking tests with a periodic table or quantum formulas tattooed on them? I got accused once of cheating in college merely because I was sitting behind one of the high-scoring students in the class. I didn't finish the test in protest, leaving the answers I had written down for him to grade. Strangely, the answers I did give had no relation to what anyone else near me at the time had, mainly because they were wrong. Just a thought.